It’s official! Next May I will go to Japan!! I am so thrilled about it, I am counting the days, well not really but you get the point. It has been always my inexplicably dream to go to Japan, always love bonsai, always loved the simplicity of japan, always loved the melancholy beauty in everything about this Land. Maybe it’s because is so different than any other country! Really I don’t know, I just love it!
Ok, ok!! Everything good and right but what about the language!! OMG!! Yes you name it!!
To be honest, is really not easy but possible and in the end it’s not as different as any other language, the secret is practice, practice, practice.
In this learning process I bump in an article that Owen Reich wrote in 2012 about a “Bonsai Japanese Crash course” which includes almost all the words you need to know in Japanese when dealing with bonsai.
Although by now I know more than only “Sumimasen” – Sorry, excuse me, or “Domo Arrigato Gozaimas” Thank you very much or “Do itashi mashite” –your welcome, this little list gives all a new perspective about what will I expect.
…and the learning process goes on!!
That’s great! It’s one of my dreams to travel to Japan as well :). Maybe someday I will get there. Don’t forget your camera when u go!